The sane right draws the line on Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes’ bile

It’s been heartening these last few days to see the overwhelming majority of the American right dump on low-rent hate-monger Nick Fuentes — and on podcaster Tucker Carlson for credulously promoting him.

Carlson’s interview last week with the Holocaust-denying, Hitler-loving alt-right edge-lord has so far racked up 5 million-plus YouTube views — perhaps a majority of them by people appalled by the episode.

Appalled not simply that a once-mainstream conservative would platform the crank, but that he simply allowed Fuentes to rant about “organized Jewry” supposedly quashing criticism of Israel with barely a hint of pushback, and indeed added his own gripes about “Christian Zionists.”

In a country committed to free speech, Fuentes has every right to spout his garbage, and even to monetize it, but no one else has the least obligation to host him, let alone nod thoughtfully as he vents.

And vents predictably: He’s made his name by casually dropping the N-word, bemoaning “white genocide” and declaring he’s on “Team Hitler.”

Oh, and: “Hitler is awesome. Hitler was right. And the Holocaust didn’t happen.”

Yes, in some juvenile quarters that “transgressive talk” brings snickers; but it qualifies you as at best vile clickbait, not anyone worth engaging seriously.

As condemnations of the podcast erupted, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts foolishly reaffirmed his organization’s support for Carlson even as he condemned Fuentes, perhaps misled by an idiotic (now ex-)aide into thinking this was key to winning cred with the younger generation.

Balderdash.

It may be true that some younger conservatives, who grew up seeing all manner of US misadventures from Libya to Iraq to Afghanistan, are wary of any Mideast commitments, and so ready to question support for Israel.

But the numbers buying into antisemitic extremism are tiny — and far busier playing videogames in their parents’ basements than doing any real-world political engagement.

Fuentes and his fans — internet-obsessed “Groypers” — despise normal conservatives, including the late Charlie Kirk; in turn, the larger right has largely and rightly shunned him.

His appearance on Carlson marks his most mainstream interview in years and leaves Kirk’s heirs running Turning Point USA a challenge now: How can they keep having Carlson be one of their regular speakers?

In our view, he was already on rocky ground when he rambled at the Kirk memorial about the “bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus” in Jerusalem who killed Jesus somehow being related to Charlie’s assassination.

Senseless, when Kirk was a strong and loud supporter of Israel, though conspiracy theorists can explain anything.

More: It’s beyond foolish to confuse online success with what real-world voters anywhere on or near the right care about — namely, putting food on the table, keeping cost of living low and ensuring their kids grow up in a world where they have a fair shot at a successful, fulfilling life.

Israel-bashing and barely-concealed antisemitism are the hot thing on the left these days — guaranteed to win cheers at a Democratic Socialists rally.

Pro-freedom, pro-America Republicans have had a streak of electoral success because they’ve avoided the obscure agendas of the web-obsessed.

Fuentes, and Carlson if he doesn’t come to his senses, are pointing to electoral suicide for the right.

Of course, this hate isn’t just bad politics, it’s deeply, horribly wrong.

And something is serious wrong with any figure, in politics or media, who can’t see that.